Hit up the 10:30 matinee when there's no one there but a couple of old people and people who feel like you do. It's quieter in the theater, you're not bumping elbows with other people and it makes for an all around better experience. Plus two movies.

Yeah, it's the part of western culture that I just don't understand. You can't eat alone, sit in a beautiful park by yourself or do anything you like alone without people thinking that you're a sad, lonely person. Sometimes that becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy, because you get so concerned about everyone thinking you're sad, you forget to enjoy what you love.

I agree. I missed one of my favorite movies the other night cuz I didn't want to go by myself. Sad thing is I invited a few people and no one wanted to go. I've gone to concerts alone, movies never. I've decided ill never let that happen again.

My favorite band is coming to town for the first time in years, and none of my friends like them enough to pay $90 for a ticket. Not going was completely out of the question, so I'm going by myself. It'll be interesting to see how the whole thing goes because concerts tend to be one of those settings where it's socially unacceptable to be there without 15 of your best friends.

At any rate, I'm excited to be able to just go and enjoy the show without the weird pressure of "OH GOD ARE MY FRIENDS HAVING A GOOD TIME TO THEY HATE MY FAVORITE BAND ARE THEY BORED OUT OF THEIR MINDS???"

The main thing is I want to concentrate on the damned movie. It's harder to do when every seat is filled and the random light of a cell phone breaks your focus.

The last movie I went to see with a crowd was Rush Hour 2 (a buddy of mine worked there and we got in from free). A woman actually answered her phone and gave someone directions to her house from the Atlanta airport. The phone call lasted about three minutes.

It depends on the movie. Rated R movies are great at matinee showings because you're usually the only one there and the ticket is only $7 compared to $14. I saw Wreck it Ralph as a matinee though, big mistake.

I love going to certain movies with a full theater: comedies and horror, for the audience reactions, and going to early showings of highly anticipated movies (like Star Wars Episode I at the time, Lord of the Rings, etc.) because the people who make it to the sold out early showings are very excited to be there, and you get applause for the opening logos, and so on.

So you basically wait in the bathroom between showings then? When I went to the movies many years ago, all the movies were setup that there was a ten to twenty minute gap between starts and ends of films.

Yeah, but the arcade games are near the front of the entrance to the movie theater in most of them here (if not all of them throughout the country). The guy who guards the entrance hall to all the theaters is half-way in the complex itself and you have to go past him or her to go and play arcade games.

I don't get it. Where do you live? I've never had a bad or loud movie theatre expirence and only ONE time have I had a few teenagers infront of my answer a phone which got shut down quickly by the guy next to them.

Consider yourself lucky I guess. It all went downhill, IMO, in the late 1990s when everyone started buying mobile cellphones because they became relatively affordable for large segments of society to own. In the early and mid-1990s, you never saw or heard people on devices or even speaking out loud in a normal voice. Everyone knew to communicate in hushed or low voices if necessary when the movie was playing. It got to the point, before I stopped going to theaters, that about 75 percent of the audience knew this proper way to act. The other 25 percent just didn't give a shit or didn't care to learn. I imagine the ratio has become worse.

I only go with my boyfriend, but we usually go when there's just a couple of old people there.
The only down side to that is they often go "What did that guy say? Whats going on? Wait what happened?"
But it's still better than Friday nights where I want to kill every little teen in the theater because they can't unglue themselves from their phones and then have to talk about what so and so posted on facebook.

I watched "Lincoln" alone about a week ago. It was on a Sunday at around 4pm so it was a different sort of crowed than im use to. After the movie ended I just sat there while the credits went, no pressure to go, no urge to make a witty comment during or after the movie. Just me, an entire row to myself, and the screen. Its like watching a movie alone that your looking forward too but taking away the ADD that only lets you watch half an hour of it and then moving on to something else. Its special, its personal, and I liked spending some time with myself.

Yeah I really wanted to see the Batman Rises, but none of my friends wanted to go, so I sucked it up and overcome the common pressure of going to the movies with all of your friends.

It was kinda spontainious so no way to get good seats, but beeing alone I got a single seat in an almost perfect spot, also I didn't need to wait for someone or lookout for someone late to get them in.
I mean you are not going to talk to your friends in a movie anyways might aswell go alone and enjoy the movie all by yourself, afterwards thats a whole other story but in the cinema well I prefer alone.

Me and a group of friends saw Episode 4-6 in one sit when they were re released in theaters prior to episode 1 using your dad's method. Although one of our friends was the night manager so it made "movie hoping" really easy. We also got to see Episode 1 the night before it released. True story

you're supposed to find a cute girl waiting in line with other cute girls. give them the tickets and then run off nervously without saying a word or asking them their names. then you can sit at home and think about how you almost got laid

I used to do this all the time, that is, go to the movie theaters all by myself. I usually went to the Ormond Beach Regal Theatres, roughly once or twice a week. I still have a collection of movie ticket stubs from that time in my personal scrap book. Sometimes I really enjoyed doing this, but when there were crowds of people in the theater, it seemed awkward to do. You really standout when you are alone. People either assume you are lonely and sad or there is something odd or bad about you. I stopped going to the movie theaters all together. The last film I went to see a film, it was The Watchmen. I almost got into a fist fight with another viewer who wanted to have his BlueTooth earpiece on through the film which had a bright blue flashing LED on it that went off every five seconds. And yeah, I was the asshole because I cursed the fucker out for being just him. Well, thank God for things like NetFlix, Amazon Instant, Hulu, Crackle, Roku Streaming Device and YouTube. I'll never go back to a movie theater again. Not worth the time, effort, or relatively high cost to see a film nowadays.

I can understand what you are saying, but it's not the same for me anymore. I have a large TV with a loud set of stereo speakers and a very dark and cool room to watch movies in. I feel the isolation and perfect environmental conditions and that's perfection for me. Some people like to go to movies for the social / crowd feeling. I honestly never ever liked that aspect of it. I went to movies to either mentally escape or to focus on the tale being told. This is anti-social, but I really don't care, whether pro or con, what someone else thinks about the movie I just watched. Not saying what they have to say isn't valid or true, it's just not essential for me to know.

i doubt i will spend more than 5k in a movie theater in my life, can't really be worth it if i spend that much for a home theater. i will have to update my home theater as well and that costs more and more.

You really don't need to spend 5k nor do you really need to buy the best and latest home theater and large-screen TV. I have a 32-inch TV with an old stereo system with four bookshelf speakers that are loud. 32-inches is large enough for me because I have a small area for my entertainment setup. I don't have the room for a 65-inch TV. It's all relative. Buy a set of opaque curtains that block light and some sound from the outside, voila, perfect audio and visual conditions. If speakers are not allowed in your living conditions, buy a very good set of headphones. AC is great if you can afford it. If not, buy a large box fan and chill. Not having to deal with a-holes in the movie theater, not being gouged by the concession stand, being able to stop the movie and do other things without issue or concern... FUCKING PRICELESS.

I always feel like a slob whenever I order pizza (which isn't all that often anymore, actually), because they always have 2 for 1 or 3 for $5 deals that I end up taking them up on, but I never have anyone to eat it with. There just ends up being 2.5 pizzas in my fridge.

I've probably gone to the movie theaters in this area over 50 times in the last 4.5 months. However, the number of times I go with other people I know has been only 7. Going alone is easier, I won't talk other wise during the movie, and don't have to make plans. Hooray!

I once won two tickets to one of those high end theatres that have the big loveseats in them instead of the usual movie seats. It was two individual vouchers for tickets, not "one couple" or anything like that.

So I went to see a film alone, of course, and presented them with one of the vouchers. After lots of humming and hawing, they got the manager, who declared that they didn't sell single seats, and I'd have to buy another ticket for the other half of the love seat. So, I produced the other voucher.

More whispering and confusion. Then it was decided that they didn't allow single occupancy in the theater seats ... so, I demanded that they give me the cash value of the vouchers (which was a fair bit, 2x$32 or something). More arguing. They were silly, and hadn't written "Cash value 1/20 of $0.01" on the vouchers, list most do.

After me having held up the line for about 15 minutes with this whole affair, they saw that people were starting to leave, so they relented, and took my two tickets. So, I went in, and got a primo couch right in the middle. The theater started to fill up, and when it was totally full, another couple came in with an usher, and the usher started to bring them over to my seat.

Another situation, then. They had somehow oversold the theater because of my vouchers. The usher was saying, "Well, these two people want a seat, you can't take up a whole one." I wasn't just going to be shooed away, or share a small loveseat with other folks. Again, the manager had to come along, and hash it out, with such gems as, "You're being selfish, this couple wants to sit, and you're taking up a whole seat, you should give it to them". The couple who were oversold tickets were clearly embarrassed and angry by the mistake of the theater. Now, the start of the movie was being held up by this.

The end result was that the manager just told the couple that he'd refund their tickets, and they wouldn't be able to watch the movie "because of this guy." Ah, the forever alone life ... sigh ...

I actually went to a movie alone last winter, because my friend snowed in, so I decided to just walk down there on my own (a 10-minute walk), and it was a totally fine experience, even though I felt a little nervous beforehand. It's dark so nobody will be able to see you if you care that much what a bunch of strangers think (I do, and I hate it) and while it did suck not having anyone to talk about the movie afterwords, it wasn't a big deal.

Going to the movies alone = might feel awkward at first, but it's totally fine and no big deal.

There's nothing at all wrong with doing this. I mean, honestly, unless you do something beforehand or afterwards, how big of a deal is it to have someone else go with you? You can't talk, and I prefer to focus on the movie, not other people. I've gone to the movies alone a few times, and I was able to pay more attention and get more out of the movie than I ever do with other people.

The thing is, most people who see movies, don't give a shit about knowing what exactly happens in the story or with the characters or why someone is doing this or that. Only a certain segment, the minority, actually gives a hoot about plot/character development/filming style/ etc. etc. Most people go to movies for the social aspect of it and for something to do.

You sound like a loner. Not saying that as a bad or mean thing, by the way. Sounds like everyones got kisses and pussy and you have sit there and endure that. Sounds like self-inflicted torture, if true.

I did the same exact thing for Star Wars I The Phantom Menance in 1999. Me by myself and about 500 people in various sized groups. Amazing, surrounded by geeks and nerds, and I felt like the loneliest and most pathetic person there. I told myself I would never do that again and I never did. Way, way, way too awkward.

Movies aren't a social activity in my opinion. Nobody want to hear you talking while the movie is on. The only social part of the movie is after it's done so that you can have a conversation about what you just saw.

I go to a majority of movies alone. I still go watch movies with my friends or on a date, but I think there's better activities for socializing.

And I buy the kids' sized snacks. It's a better deal, and you get a variety of snacks. Popcorn, soda, and candy for 4 or 5 bucks? That's a deal.

Last time I went to the movies alone, some guy was screaming, " STOP PUSHING MY SEAT BITCH!" That went on for awhile. It was some gangstas sitting in front of a bunch of cheerleader girls. The guy stood up and threw a family-sized soda at the pushing-on-the-seat girl's face.